Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gikandi,Simon (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1992
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0801425751
    Published:
    Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    0801425751
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Fiction, History and criticism (genre, time periods, etc.), and Carpentier, Alejo (1904-1980)
    Notes:
    260 p, Contents: Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition -- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming -- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon -- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall -- Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb -- Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng

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